Kids and Pets

I like having a cat around. The kids like it, too. I like that the kids like it. Here's some of my favorites pics of them

Playing Hide and seek with Rockwell

He's kind enough to share the bed with Otto

Mwa-ha-ha I love this. Someday he'll get stepped on while sitting on the bear rug we inherited from Grandpa Blake.

 

I sure am glad Halloween is over. Happy November everyone

Monthly Update

Wow! Does anyone still read this blog? Oh well. I have quite literally logged onto Troys computer and posted random pictures no one has seen yet. Most of them are of Rockwell. He is such a funny two-year-old. We've been busy job hunting. Finally Troy got an awesome new job at Beehive FCU doing graphic design and marketing but since its only part time will continue working at Ace Hardware for the time-being. So I guess it means we'll be in the area for a while longer. Maybe forever if he does his Masters online. We'll see. Everyone should come visit us and tell us of far off places cuz we aren't going anywhere any time soon

Aunt Anna got a pony (am I jealous? Why yes, I am, thank you for asking) AND she was super nice enough to take Rockwell for a ride

I wasn't sure how he would do because he usually only likes horses from afar but he LOVED it in his own stoic little way. Maybe because it was small he wasn't so frightened

 I love his goofy face in this picture. Little rebel- I had asked him to smile. He takes after his dad.

Don't know why but we were chatting at Grandma and Grandpa's and he comes out of the toy room dressed like this. Cowboy musketeer or something. 

 He wanted to be like Daddy.

Aaaaand for a little change of pace, a picture of Troy's motorcycle. I don't know if I've ever shown up close the Thunder Cats symbol on it. Preeeeety sweet.

CLEAR way back in July Troy went to nerdfest oops I mean geek convention AH! I mean Comic Con. Troy should probably do this post since  I only know a little of what actually went on. Oh well. Here are some pictures a few months too late...

There's so many of them! They're taking over the world!

Troy's favorite in polystone

Actually they did a lot of portfolio reviews/interviews which is really why (yeah, right) he went . This poor kid looks pretty nervous in his interview.

The trolls from The Hobbit. WETA Workshop made these (the same that did the other LOTR creatures)

Something really cool...

Action Figure Jedi Troy

 Don't know what this is BUT Troy had a great time. He started planning his trip next year before he even came home.

Random Pictures from the Last Month

Woah! I can't believe how fast the month goes! I hate bloggers like me. We haven't been up to a whole lot. Just live. Just livin' it and waiting in Limbo Land while Troy works on his portfolio and we figure out where we need to be and what we need to be doing. In the meantime:

Rock helped me dry apples. Oh the help of a two year old- one step forward 5 steps backward

And he made us laugh, many times.

We made Rocky a bed. It's almost perfect. It cost about $25 to make it out of solid wood (pine) and we needed to get him off the floor since we are in the basement and it's hobo (spider) season

We went to Rigby lake with Fred & Nita and Charles & Nancy. These babes are all just weeks apart. So cute! Otto, you heartbreaker, you!

Alterier motives for the trip: The men wanted to scuba dive in the lake

Rocky thought Charly was the coolest.

Harvy has become part of the family and the official scapegoat. Who ate my candy bar? Harvy. Who farted? It was Harvy. Who took over my spot on the bed? Harvy again.

Funny cat. We like him. But we like cats. We are the cat people that sitcoms poke fun at. He is the only cat I've had who's willing to come back after I throw him off the my lap while I run to the bathroom. I step on his tail like all the time and he just acts mildly annoyed. Crazy. 

More help from Rockwell. We are not ready for potty training but we're trying to help him not be afraid of it. Anyways I guess mostly he just wanted to do what I was doing- cleaning the toilet.

Rocky can identify different engines as they drive past our apartment complex (and there are man) he loves to exclaim "bike" "truck" "car" "train" (we are uncomfortably close to the train tracks) and he loves to ride daddy's bike around the parking lot. But mostly I guess he just loves hat, which really explains the next two pictures.

  

This is how Troy looks at me when I make him salads for lunch. Just kidding. This is how Troy looks at me when I interrupt his salad eating by taking a picture of him and threatening to put it on the blog for the world to see